Flickr Suite Content Plugin

Introduction

The Flickr Suite Content Plugin is a full featured, responsive (mobile ready) and versatile plugin to display flickr photos and flickr videos beautifully on your Joomla website using simple but powerful short codes.

Other high regarded features are:
- All your flickr photos: Access to all your flickr photos (even the ones set to private on flickr)
- Downloads: Select which website users can download the original photos using Joomla ACL.
- Randomizer: Display your flickr photos in a random order(great for use in a module)
- Geo location: Locate your flickr photo on google maps.
- Various display methods: Thumbnail grid, slider or just one photo on the website. All linked to the set/album in the image viewer.

The Flickr Suite Content Plugin comes with an elaborate user guide freely available on our website.

Please visit our website for an elaborate demo of the features of the Flickr Suite Content Plugin.

Value for money

Functionality

It does all it's supposed to do but sync with Flickr is a no go.
In order to sync it with Flickr you need to turn off Joomla cache.

Ease of use

Very easy to setup and use.

Support

Support gets back to you quickly.

Documentation

You really don't need to read documentation as it is quite easy to setup.

Value for money

The price is fair for what it does.

I used this to:
A client

Owner's reply:
First of all thanks you Vincent Gabriele for writing your review. We highly appreciate it that you took the time and effort.

I’d like to take the opportunity to elaborate on the Joomla cache and the Flickr Suite. In particular the Flickr Suite Content plugin, as that is the only Flickr Suite extension that is affected by the Joomla Cache.

Like any other Joomla content plugin, the Flickr Suite content plugin is affected by the Joomla cache. As long as the Joomla cache is switched on and there is a valid Joomla cache record for the article or module in which the plugin is used, the plugin will not be called by Joomla and hence the plugin cannot update the photos.

However, by default Joomla cache records are only valid for 15 minutes. That means that after those 15 minutes the Joomla cache will be refreshed and Joomla will call the plugin. The plugin will subsequently refresh the photos in the article.

Whether the plugin will load new results from Flickr depends on the cache setting of the plugin. To speed up loading times, the plugin has its own cache and can also fetch results from the more extensive Flickr Suite Component cache.

By default the plugin will first check the cache of the Flickr Suite Component (when the component is installed), then check its own cache for valid result and then fetch new results from Flickr. This can be changed to checking only the plugin cache or fetching results directly from Flickr. The times span for which the results in the Flickr Suite plugin cache are valid can also be changed.

We hope this explains the behaviour of the Flickr Suite extensions in combination with the Joomla cache a bit. In case you have questions about the Flickr Suite extensions and/or the cache behaviour, please contact us. We’ll be more than happy to answer your questions!

Value for money

Functionality

This Flickr plugin does what the developer says and the reviews are spot-on. A great way to select and display your public/private photos.

Ease of use

Using the plug-in couldn't be easier. However, beginners need to pay attention to the excellent documentation on Flickr APIs.

Support

Support: 100%, and the developer even went to the trouble of tweaking the code to enable a function I particularly needed - immediately.

Documentation

Detailed, clear, comprehensive documentation.

Value for money

Excellent value for money. I strongly recommend this plug-in.

I used this to:
The Flickr Suite Content Plugin is perfect for selecting and displaying tagged photos (both private and public) on your site. I use it on my blog and am able to display slideshows, large, medium and small images, one-offs, sets, in any way I want. Using tags with sets also works!

Nice component, easy to use, and a nice helpfull supportdesk. Worth the price.

My client, a big tennisclub, is using this component for private Flickr-sets, they don't want their pictures of their children free on the internet. This component did the job, and on my clients behalf the developer is going to make it possible to put the built-in download-function for high-resolution behind a login. Chapeau!

This is a fantastic way for my clients to display photos on their website. No more having to talk them through resizing and uploading, or worrying about GB of disk space being used. Now they just upload to Flickr and insert the shortcode into the article where they need it.

I had some problems getting it working, but the developer responded immediately and fixed the problem within a couple of hours.

Content Access Filter

Paid download |
Authoring & Content |
Smålabs

3

Score:

93

1 review

With the content access filter you can grant or restrict access to parts of the content on your website based on a wide variety of conditions (over 25! available). Granting or restricting access to content is as easy as placing {show} or {hide} tags before and after the content you want to control the access to. For example:
{show group=”jasper”}Hello Jasper{/show}
Will show the enclosed message “Hello Jasper” only to the user with user name “jasper”.
Supported conditions include:
- User conditions (User name/id, group name/id, access level)
- Various time and date based conditions
- Request conditions (menu, menu item, template, component, language)
- User environment conditions (IPv4 address, IPv6 address, domain name, country, device, browser, os)
- Custom PHP conditions (Define your own conditions)
Require advanced filtering ? The content access filter gives you great flexibility and control to display or hide the content you want. The extension supports the use of AND and OR logic, supports grouping conditions by using parenthesis () and supports negating conditions. You can also create conditional content by using the else short code. For example:
{show season=”spring” and (user=”jasper, john” or group=”customers”)}
This content is only displayed in the spring and only if the user has user name “jasper” or “john” or is a member of the group “customers”
{else season=”spring”}
This content is only displayed when the user doesn’t have username “jasper” or “john” and does not belong to the group “customers”.
{else –season=”summer”}
This will only be displayed in case the precious sections of the filter are not displayed and it is not summer. (Note the minus sign in front of the condition. It negates the condition)
{else}
This content is displayed in all other cases.
{/show}
The Content Access filter filters your content on the server, so no access, really means no access.
Other great features of the filter include:
- Condition profiles (to predefine a set of conditions for frequent use)
- Custom conditions (Define your own condition in PHP using the interface of the Content Access Filter)
- Filter analysis function (analyze the filter behavior and check for errors etc.)
- and more!
For more information, please check our website.

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UPG Twitter Widget

Free |
Social Display |
Smålabs

3

Score:

71

1 review

The all new Twitter widget module (version 3.0) makes it very easy to embed your Twitter timelines and Twitter buttons on your website. Simply enter the Twitter url, handle or hashtag, select what you like to embed and you're all set.
The module embeds the official twitter widgets and twitter buttons and enables you to tweak all the options the official Twitter widgets has to offer, giving you that that little bit extra control you might need to control the visual and behavioral aspects of the widgets and buttons.
With this module you can embed the following:
Twitter Collections
Twitter Profile Timelines, follow buttons and mention buttons
Twitter lists
Twitter likes timelines
Twitter Hashtag buttons
All the features of the Twitter widget module are nicely documented in a user guide in PDF format that is freely available on our website. To get you going, the elaborate user guide of the Twitter Widget module also describes the installation and initial configuration of the module in a step by step procedure. You'll have it up and running in no-time.
For a full overview on all the options of our Twitter widget module, please check the user guide on our website.
We hope you will enjoy using our Twitter widget module!